OZschwitz workplace culture partly to blame for Toyota's exit

The Australian car-making industry might be on its knees, but Toyota's manufacturing enterprise agreement was still scheduled to deliver two pay rises totalling 5.5 per cent this year.

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To cover the $17 million cost of the pay increases, Toyota put a proposal to its manufacturing workers late last year to cut back the three-week compulsory Christmas shutdown, cut down on long weekend sickies and blood-bank rorts, excessive overtime, and shift loadings.

To say that Toyota was dismayed would be an understatement

Ford had signalled it would pull out of local production in 2016, and General Motors-Holden was girding its loins for a similar announcement. Local production of Toyota's next generation Camry – and its larger Aurion spinoff – was up for grabs after the current model ran out in 2017. Toyota Motor Corp was due to make the crucial decision this year.

In the circumstances, you'd think the Toyota workers and the Australian Manufacturing Workers' Union would play ball. But instead, the union orchestrated a Federal Court challenge by a handful of shop stewards to prevent Toyota putting the changes to its workers for a vote, citing a "no extra claims" clause in the enterprise agreement.

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OZschwitz workplace culture partly to blame for Toyota's exit

OZschwitz workplace culture partly to blame for Toyota's exit

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